An international team of dolphin advocates opposed to the Taiji dolphin drives will gather at the headquarters of the World Association of Zoos & Aquariums (WAZA) this week, to discuss the exclusion of one of its members.

The team, headed by The Cove star Ric O'Barry, will host a demonstration outside of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) building in Gland, Switzerland, which also houses the headquarters for the WAZA organization.

International team to tackle world zoo & aquarium organization article:378022:30::0 By Elizabeth Batt Gland - An international team of dolphin advocates opposed to the Taiji dolphin drives will gather at the headquarters of the World Association of Zoos & Aquariums (WAZA) this week, to discuss the exclusion of one of its members. The team, headed by The Cove star Ric O'Barry, will host a demonstration outside of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) building in Gland, Switzerland, which also houses the headquarters for the WAZA organization. The rally will ask WAZA to oust one of its members, the Japan Association of Zoos and Aquariums or JAZA, if the organization will not comply with WAZA's established Code of Ethics. JAZA, whose member aquariums regularly purchase dolphins captured in the brutal Japanese dolphin drives, have long maintained that the drive hunts are "tradition." And WAZA, activists say, accepts the theory to justify JAZA's…Read More

Ric O'Barry gears up for WAZA demo in Switzerland. follow Tue, Mar 18, 2014 02:00PM UTC Call in to speak with the host (347) 215-9680 On March 28, 2014 Save the Blood Dolphins and dolphin advocates from all over the world, including Ric O’Barry star of “The Cove” and Director of the Ric O’Barry Dolphin Project, are planning a huge…Read More